sickle : Idioms & Phrases

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common sickle pine

  • noun small tropical rain forest tree of Indonesia and Malaysia
    Falcatifolium falciforme.
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hammer and sickle

  • noun the emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union
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sickle alfalfa

  • noun European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle-shaped pods
    Medicago falcata; sickle lucerne; sickle alfalfa.
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sickle cell

  • noun an abnormal red blood cell that has a crescent shape and an abnormal form of hemoglobin
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sickle feather

  • noun one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster
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sickle lucerne

  • noun European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle-shaped pods
    Medicago falcata; sickle lucerne; sickle alfalfa.
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sickle medick

  • noun European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle-shaped pods
    Medicago falcata; sickle lucerne; sickle alfalfa.
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Sickle pod

  • (Bot.), a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods.
Webster 1913

sickle-cell anaemia

  • noun a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape
    sickle-cell anaemia; crescent-cell anaemia; drepanocytic anaemia; crescent-cell anemia; drepanocytic anemia; sickle-cell anemia.
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sickle-cell anemia

  • noun a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape
    sickle-cell anaemia; crescent-cell anaemia; drepanocytic anaemia; crescent-cell anemia; drepanocytic anemia; sickle-cell anemia.
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sickle-cell disease

  • noun a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape
    sickle-cell anaemia; crescent-cell anaemia; drepanocytic anaemia; crescent-cell anemia; drepanocytic anemia; sickle-cell anemia.
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sickle-shaped

  • adjective satellite curved like a sickle
    falcate; falciform.
    • a falcate leaf
    • falcate claws
    • the falcate moon
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yellow-leaf sickle pine

  • noun a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew
    Falcatifolium taxoides.
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